Christopher Jerell Redd was born on March 25,1985 and is an American comedian and actor.
13 Facts About Chris Redd
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Chris Redd is known for his roles in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Disjointed, and Kenan.
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Chris Redd was born on March 25,1985, in St Louis, Missouri, and moved to Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, at age eight.
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Chris Redd attended Naperville schools, including Gregory Middle School and Neuqua Valley High School, and later attended community college in Elgin, Illinois, where he took his first improvisational theater class.
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Chris Redd briefly pursued a career as a rapper, while working as a server at Olive Garden, but switched to sketch comedy in 2009 after being inspired by the work of Steve Carell and realizing that he enjoyed and thrived more in improvisational comedy.
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Chris Redd joined the comedy group The Second City, and was a member of its touring company.
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Chris Redd moved to Los Angeles in 2016 to further pursue an acting career, and made his film debut as Hunter the Hungry, an underground rapper, in the 2016 mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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In 2018, Chris Redd won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for writing the song "Come Back Barack", which lamented former president Barack Obama's departure from the White House and aired during Chance the Rapper's episode on November 18,2017.
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Chris Redd left SNL in 2022, after the show's 47th season.
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Between 2021 and 2022, Chris Redd co-starred in the comedy television series Kenan, alongside his SNL castmate Kenan Thompson.
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Chris Redd appeared in the 2023 film Spinning Gold as Frankie Crocker, a disc jockey for the first black music radio station in New York.
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In October 2022, Chris Redd was assaulted by an unknown assailant outside of a comedy club in New York.
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Chris Redd was then taken to the hospital, and later released.